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Poems and Prose: A Bilingual Edition

Poems and Prose: A Bilingual Edition

Trakl, Georg

Paperback

Series: European Poetry Classics

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0810120062
ISBN13: 9780810120068
Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
Published: Jun 1 2005
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

A comprehensive English-language edition of verse by the Austrian poet

An undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, a poet of intense inner vision and originality whose work stands alongside that of Yeats, Valéry, and T. S. Eliot. Besides Rilke, his more famous admirers include Karl Kraus and Martin Heidegger. The distinctive tone of Trakl's work-especially admired by his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein-is autumnal and melancholy. Trakl was writing at a time of spiritual and social disintegration on the eve of the First World War, when personal values and perceptions tended to be subsumed in a more generalized anguish and exaltation. Neo-romantic, early modernist, his rich, vitally sensuous poetry can be seen to mark the transition from impressionism to expressionism, but at the same time transcends such categories. Trakl's poetry has previously only been available in English in short selections or in anthologies. This bilingual edition, the most comprehensive to date, gives readers the chance to get to know Trakl's work more fully than ever before.

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